Whereas our Aunt Norma Jean and cousin Doug visited us when we live in Santa Ana; Uncle Robert, mom's brother, and Aunt Doris, her sister, and her husband, Uncle Hap Rowe, visited us in Whittier. From the looks of our ages in the top photo on either side of mom, in front of the house, this was not long after we'd moved in.
In the bottom photo with Uncle Hap, dad and Robert, they are setting up chairs on the back patio. I believe it was the two of them who helped dad construct the wooden patio cover that will be visible in later photographs. That same cover is missing in the photos of the backyard in the late 1980's.
Not long after we moved in, I remember mom shrieking and running outside with a loaf of bread, shouting about finding a mouse in the bread wrapper. Dad grabbed a shovel and smashed the mouse flat on the driveway, along with the bread. Our neighborhood had been fields before the residential neighborhood was built, so mice indoors ought to have been no surprise. We also had a stray cat produce a litter of kittens in our garage. A couple of the kittens had gotten out of the box and had died on the cold concrete of the garage floor.
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